Bikie saga is back in TV mini-series

Seanna Cronin
APN Entertainment Editor
A US ex-pat, Seanna has been writing about the Australian entertainment industries for the past six years and is also a documentary producer, photographer and scuba diver.

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IF HISTORY is anything to go by, then the police should be worried about the bikie violence spilling onto our streets.

In 1984 it was a similar string of tit-for-tat violence between the Comanchero and Bandido bikie gangs that led to a bloody Father's Day shootout at a public swap meet at Milperra in south-west Sydney.

Known as the Milperra Massacre, the firearm battle ended with the deaths of six bikies and an innocent bystander and triggered one of the country's biggest court cases of the time.

The saga comes back to life in Channel 10's new six-part mini-series, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms.

Based on the book by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey, the series is produced by Screentime and directed by Peter Andrikidis, who has helmed acclaimed telemovies My Husband, My Killer and directed the first series of Underbelly.

Andrikidis brought his experience in the true-crime genre to Bikie Wars.

"I remember that day and hearing it on the radio. You think six bikies shoot each other and that's it but there's quite a build-up to it," he said.

"They're all human beings. They've got families and kids so it's not just a bunch of guys shooting at each other."

The mini-series follows Comancheros president Jock, played by former NRL player Matt Nable, and new recruit Snoddy (Rush star Callan Mulvey), who leaves the Comancheros to start his own club.